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a coup amid spiraling post-election violence for just seen seven people killed. u.s. president barack obama says twin blasts of the boston marathon were an act of terror three people died in the worst domestic attack since nine eleven sparking concerns over america's multi-billion dollar security measures. and the defiance of hunger strikers in got to come to them obey grows with the u.s. saying forty five starving themselves but lawyers insists it's more than three times that many. on screen around the world twenty four hours a day this is live from moscow and our breaking news this presidential election

when a nicolas maduro has accused his rival and planning a coup the country is sliding into political crisis following the closest vote in almost fifty years which saw nearly half the population reject hugo chavez his chosen successor as leader seven people have been killed and sixty one injured during post election violence let's go live now to our affiliate in the capital caracas to always seeing a potential major crisis unraveling here now in the country. well given that the situation is very polarized say yes there's a potential for that we've already seen no violence in the last couple of days again the latest figures is that seven people have been killed and dozens injured in the fall we're also hearing some arrests now the chief prosecutor in venezuela did not give details on those. deaths however each side is accusing the other of provoking violence or creating violence as well so you can see really the polarized

nature of the situation right now and my brutal also says that he is going to a bad day be a plot of protest of the opposition to morrow so certainly that is going to create more tension as the opposition also says that they're not going to stop until there's a complete recount of the votes a clearly a country very polarized we saw the vote fifty fifty almost in half and that's certainly creating problems here right now with of course been enjoying the blessing of chavez so much that of course helped him get to power but know will that help him control the situation. well if you look at the situation right now it's not exactly under control so certainly he is going to have a lot of difficulty first of all dividing a very divided uniting rather a very divided nation and also keeping the government in place in line with with his plans and moving forward as president also another important thing is that historically in venezuela military support is essential for. civility in the

country and you know what chavez was ex-military he had that support but. he has still has to do whether he's going to be able to get that support as well so he's going to have a very big shoes to fill and already a very tough for a start and a very weak mandate i must say with that very small margin that we saw in the elections reckless and you think you very much indeed for that update. well now let's discuss the political situation there with political analyst. he suspects are. we going to see a tough crackdown on the opposition now. does he do a show he's just collate the. police requesting a recount of their vote now modo has already said he will not allow you to see shouldn't go. through the protest and request such a recount now these things like to exacerbate more increased danger of the matter

so. there will teacher who want to express himself there or maybe some quarters so yesterday when we pulled out my router was proclaimed bracy and by then it won't be like you see any so what do you make of the immediate future here we have the country divided almost call for the population they don't want with the president saying very tense now very tense reaction to this a lot of a lot of protests where do you think that is where they could be heading now well you what you were told the bend on the government how the government managed if you wait for the electoral story. demand for wasting a week to go. through given that. the phrase under which. we won the election. because people agreed. recounting but now seems.

to seems to be but track even now the electoral dorothy's not. not announced that such recount won't be stayed in place and there. are. over venezuela that of course who will elect growth who have taken place in minutes when if chavez was in power now would have allowed these opposition protests to take place how would he have handled the situation. well. i think the key thing here. is out of the picture is a game changer in venezuela certainly child is. a political vacuum. which will be very very high and feel we have been seen lately. appointed successor trying to give. the movement but i mean we're in

a scenario but it's well aware. and social challenges. we're seeing we have been seen in greece we need prospects while the ruling party has been the greasy in terms of. you know so in effect just finally we're saying but they're open in effect losing grip of the situation already and we're seeing a very strong opposition just how long do you think we could last as president some are saying that could be another election what in three years' time because he's got a lot of problems to to face on a lot of economic and domestic problems. so if they're going to do. a recall referendum could be releasing the mutal their mandate which leaves three years from now these of course who. survived a recount process. we have to remember that the un forces are going to be there we had the scenes our beater in the political process after forty years or.

venezuela and these political crises as they get close to minutes waylays taking place i mean as you know very weak democrat that you do shows and the only place power. would pressure were different political actors on the ground the electoral you reach every. family in certain outcomes is definitely. yeah i thank you very much indeed for joining us live here on r.t. political dynasty i got my accomplice thank you thank you. a person close an investigation into the boston marathon bombing says that the explosive devices were made from pressure cookers filled with metal and ball bearings three people were killed and one hundred seventy six injured in the twin blast that rocked the finish line of the race seventeen of those are in a critical condition and police still have no suspect wanted me to point i have the details now from new york. u.s.

president barack obama called the boston marathon bombings a heinous and cowardly act and said that any time a bomb is used to target civilians it is an act of terror and that is why the f.b.i. is now investigating the bombings as a terror attack the u.s. president said that officials don't know yet who is behind the attacks whether it was an act of an organization or eleven and individual but he said that all americans have a role to play in a learning authorities meaning that if anyone sees anything suspicious to speak the u.s. commander in chief also said that security is being increased nationwide in the meantime the f.b.i. agent in boston investigating. the bombings said that the agency is interviewing a variety of witnesses multiple locations but the f.b.i. will not disclose who might or might not be in custody right now officials are also asking anybody that was in its hands during the bombings in boston took place by

the finish line of the marathon if anybody had videotaped anything taken pictures to hand that in to authorities and also it's very important to point out the doctors at the various hospitals that have been shooting all of those injured the number is now increasing above one hundred seventy doctors say that the bombs that were used they believe were probably placed low on the ground which is why many of the victims are suffering injuries to a lower to the lower extremities many of the victims received amputations that's something that the doctors at all various hospitals say that many applications were performed on some victims doctors say they just had to finish with the bombs already started when it comes to the injuries but the f.b.i. lastly said the agent that spoke at a press conference said that the u.s. will go to the ends of the earth to find out what took. place who was behind the

boston marathon bombings and if it is a domestic or international planned event that's something that so far and day two of the boston marathon bombings the u.s. cannot confirm reports there and the f.b.i. says they will go to the ends of the earth to find those behind the deadly attack well president obama called it a heinous cowardly act which is being investigated as terrorism well it is. is that the scene of the blasts in boston there is very little information that officials are going out and firming at this point so far what's known are the numbers of course of casualties at least three people who died including an eight year old boy and over one hundred seventy five people are currently in local hospitals seventeen of these people in critical condition we do know that there is no one in custody as of yet police did interview several people off throughout the night buildings and

really raided the entire scene and what's been confirmed so far are the numbers of casualties and the fact that there were only two bombs and no further devices found on the ground even though there were reports about this on monday. the nine eleven attacks in the united states heralded an era of heightened security measures some of which were severely criticized by human rights groups and you will activists brumback a told me earlier that america's security web has been proven a failure no matter how much money is being poured into it. since september eleventh the united states government has sent spent hundreds of billions of dollars for government security agencies right now i'm sure as happened after september eleventh private security companies are salivating over the new contracts that are are soon to come of course that is the business there is there's profits and even mega profits made by this kind of security apparatus but you can see in the case of boston they don't have any leads right now there was no indication that such an attack was coming so is it possible by the by by using military methods and

security methods alone to stop terrorist attacks to protect society i don't think so we can see though that the u.s. policy at home and abroad as well is almost exclusively based on. towards security towards militarization towards the abrogation of civil rights and civil liberties which i think ultimately don't defend protect and make people more secure. well these tragic events in boston have been overshadowed by another deadly calamity in iraq a little later we examine the circumstances behind widespread attacks there is one is how some u.s. state department officials are under pressure despite pledges to shut to guantanamo bay prison those stories coming up shortly.

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the music of the international airport in the very heart of moscow. he continues here on r.t.e. u.k. broadcasters never tire of boasting about that fairness which is guaranteed by regulations which demand impartiality however some influential voices believe that concept is outdated in the digital age and want the rule scrapped all he explains. the way that newspapers and news channels are regulated in the u.k. is stossel any different so newspapers and online news portals they still regulate themselves that means that they can be as politically biased as they please the example being the guardian on the left in the u.k. or the london times on the right but for news channels it's a whole different story there you legally bound by off to be impartial and if

they're deemed not to be they can be fined or even have their license revoked but in a day and age when the media is converging and news portals are looking more like television channels and television channels have their own websites is this regulation surely distinction fair and does it make sense well the lords communication committee have come out with a report recommending that the government removes the impartiality clause from public broadcast says i'm joined by lord richard inglewood who's the chairman of the lords communication committee to talk about this so if the way that no industry is regulated right now is outdated media and you're saying news websites look more and more like the channel that the channels have their news websites it's all converged is that impartiality or sport for us to compete york city to not entirely know we firmly advocate that the public service broadcasters in this country should be assisted the exactly the same way as they do not they provide. the measure of

impartiality how achievable is impartiality i know that right now there is the impartiality clause but nevertheless we have received biases from all these journals that exists right now doesn't personality exist at all well it's a very slippery concepts you quite right to say but one of the advantages of a plural media landscape is that different people will approach the question of impartiality from slightly different perspectives i don't think you can say impartiality means that there is one way of doing it which is in. the right way but what impartiality does do is cut out the kind of political proselytizing but you're quite right in saying you'll find in quite a number of newspapers and in certain news providers from outside our jurisdiction if commercial broadcasters and given free rein to do what they like what about barbara well i mean the crucial point here is that in a world where ip t.v. is going to be the norm relatively soon all this stuff is going to be streamed into

into into people's houses if they want to watch it and that's the big question is when people want to watch it there are some very basic rules that surround that very very basic and shows the matter is that's what the future is going to look like so it's all very well us being very pious here but the short answer is it's not going to stop it already you can get stuff off the internet from these other countries providing with extremely partial news thank you very much for your comment thank you very much for taking part. us military has confirmed more detainees at guantanamo bay prison have joined a hunger strike officially the number now stands at forty five but lawyers claim the figure is much higher thirteen of the captives are reportedly being force fed to prevent them from starving security guards lethal rounds at detainees over the weekend when several resisted being put into single cells all monday a federal judge declined to take action on behalf of the striking prisoner his attorney said his life was in danger because of a lack of clean water and proper medical treatment u.s.

officials say there's still a commitment to shutting the camp down despite legal hurdles. and explains washington's latest position. when pressed for answers the administration the state department specifically which was in charge of the detainees transfers they blame congress the moratorium on transfers to yemen that the lawmakers put in place the defense authorization act that they passed three months ago the state department shut down the office that was working on those transfers but now they say they still have a team that's working on it exploring different options they say as the department spokesperson was grilled this monday on whether or not they're actually doing something or just saying that they're working on it but we still have staff will continue to work on this account is it not the administration's position that you're that it's completely had been made to please be hamstrung by congress in trying to relocate these people so to be essential you legal right i think i did i said i know i know but so why didn't i express my work it's going to be wasting

their time on this if it can't be done legally again the president's commitment to closing it continues and so while we have closed the special i was office we do have staff to continue to explore but why do they need to explore if they can if they can't be done if it can't be done without changing the law i mean are they working on it by trying to convince lawmakers to lift some of the restrictions let me check in with our legal guys are staff overnight see if we can get your update if there are specific cases that we are able to work on given the restrictions both lawyers are skeptical about the administration's response and say what they hear is mostly excuses our clients are coming to grips with the cold fact they may well die of gone not because the state is unable to transfer them but because it's unwilling to do so the transfer restrictions are difficult for example they would require the secretary of defense to personally certify that receiving state has taken steps to ensure that a prisoner can ever threaten the united states in the future whatever threaten might mean in that context. and obviously no state can guarantee that

a future event will or will not occur but that was the point the point was to discourage transfer out of eighty six prisoners cleared for release fifty six are yemeni nationals three years ago the u.s. suspended all pres first of detainees to yemen defense lawyers say what they do with now is collective punishment by the u.s. government based on nationality which is obviously a violation of international law. and let's get more on the notorious detention center from wise and beg he is a former detainees and independent u.s. task force in a report released today has said that the indefinite detention of prisoners in guantanamo is intolerable and should end by the time u.s. troops leave afghanistan next year you think it will. sorry could you repeat that question up until you probably there is a u.s. task force saying that the indefinite detention should end by the time u.s. troops leave afghanistan next year do you think that could actually happen well i

think that you know i spoke to the people from the task force last early last year and although. they certainly mean well i don't know whether that's going to take place because there has to be a will and i don't think that the will exists certainly if you still got people one time will eleven years since the invasion of afghanistan and there's no practical will to send these individuals to places where they're supposed to have a basic normal life and i don't know when the will is going to come troops withdrawn when still problems that were instituted at the time of bush not being clear at the time. if you were in there now in guantanamo would you go on hunger strike. absolutely absolutely there's no doubt about it in my mind because the hunger strike is a. is an action of desperation it's something that happened here we know that margaret thatcher for example is to has died here recently and one of the things that happened during her time was the ira the irish republican army hunger strikes

in which ten people actually died in this country they don't know very well in guantanamo that the only way you can get your rights is by taking extreme measures and of course the hunger strike is something something that's been going on and off for the past eleven years and exactly that's what people might wonder has been going on for eleven years now hunger strikes and they have achieved nothing the authorities are completely ignored these detainees so is it really going to achieve only the as i said on and off and big been done sporadically by smaller groups this time around i think the numbers that i heard from the lawyers and so forth is it's close to three quarters of the prisoners that are there because they've been there for such a long time almost none of them have been charged with any any recognizable crime and had they been convicted of a crime of terrorism they would have served their sentences by now most of them and i think that that's what the the prisoners that are protesting about the process and about the conditions they're protesting about the water and i remember the

water that used to come from the taps at the time when i was there it used to be yellow and undrinkable and not much has changed in that regard because the abuse says that the religious abuses are still taking place the prisons are still complaining about those things through the lawyers and even one of them has just recently written something through his lawyer in the in one the american papers and when he talks about that you people are slowly killing us without establishing any evidence against us at all all right so what do you think is happening to president obama's promise to shut down this detention facility. i think it's all forgotten i think that there was no real sense of shutting it down we as the prisoners knew that while he said that he's going to close the prison. during that period that we're building some of the state of the our prisons now or whether we're the that the detainees are held so we knew you couldn't close the place down while at the same time we're spending tens of millions of dollars building latest state of the art prison systems so i think that statement most people ironically think that it

is closed down and that was the the trick that obama played us and we're told all of us it's closing down our most people think therefore it's the most powerful men in the world says it's going to be played most people just briefly tell us why you were released from guantanamo just briefly and your fellow inmates weren't released just briefly for work there's been over six hundred prisoners who have been released i was released as a result of discussions and campaigns between my father since amnesty international my own organization cage prisoners who simply said if he's done a crime is committed a crime bring him to a court and try again and try and yes and release him and that must basically the voice of commonsense which which for some reason after three of us why some bad thank you very much indeed for joining us live in r.t. former guantanamo detainee thank you. where you can find out how the guantanamo hunger strike has been unfolding on our web site r.t. .